HIPAA

Given the potential health benefits claimed along with the inherently sensitive information that these products collect, certain legal considerations are key for a successful product launch and maintaining consumer trust over the life of the product – and hopefully through the next generation launch as well.

Anyone tasked with responsibility for enterprise cybersecurity has to consider a legal and compliance landscape that is evolving and growing in complexity. Cybersecurity planning and implementation potentially implicates a broad range of federal and state laws, regulatory rules and guidelines, standards, and other forms of published guidance that could impact...

For companies whose electronic data includes protected health information (PHI), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as modified by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) will add another layer of complexity for data security compliance. This may be viewed as a...

The value and vulnerability of PHI has been repeatedly demonstrated by criminal attempts to obtain it for fraudulent purposes. Every organization that handles this type of data must be prepared to defend it.

If mediation or arbitration requires disclosure of or questioning about PHI to the neutral mediator or arbitrator, is the neutral covered by the HIPAA PHI restrictions, and if so, should the neutral be considered a business associate?